were Blockführer Franzka, SS-Arbeitsdienstführer Max Ritter, SS-er Hugo Hermann Wolf, among many others. In 1948 the camp commandant and guards of Amersfoort were tried and convicted for their crimes. Karl Peter Berg was sentenced to death and was executed in 1949. Josef Johann Kotalla was also sentenced to death but later commuted to life in prison. Along with three other prisoners he became involved in what was known as the "", a group of prisoners whose possible release stirred up very strong feelings amongst Dutchmen. Kotalla was the only who was not eventually released from prison. He died in prison in 1979. The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies has many resources concerning the guards of Amersfoort and their trials. The NIOD has dossiers on the following Amersfoort guards and personnel: Berg, Brahm, Dohmen, Fernau, Helle, Kotalla, May, van der Neut, Oberle, Stöver, Voight, Westerveld and Wolf. Newspaper clippings are available for Berg, Fernau, Stöver and Helle. Court records for the trial of these guards are also available, the following being an example of what is available: Indictment and verbal reports made by the period of the trial against EE Alscher, K.P. Berg, E. Brahm, J.J. Kotälla, e.g. May, J. Oberle and H.H. Wolf, November 16–14 December 1948. Graphic shorthand reports made by the period of the trial against EE Alscher, K.P. Berg, E. Brahm, J.J. Kotälla, e.g. May, J. Oberle and H.H. Wolf, 16–23 November 1948. See also German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war References External links (in Dutch) 1941 establishments in the Netherlands Holocaust commemoration Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands Reich Security Main Office Buildings and structures in Utrecht (province) History of Utrecht (province) Amersfoort Leusden